Show OGDEN ITEMS Illuminated The gaming hells of Ogden are il- il Il every night and players busy at work They are not quite so well patronized as at first but they are running all the same There are twenty districts in Weber County where the school tax is con collected The assessor values the whole county at a trifle over six million dollars Of this amount Ogden City gives four million and three quarters The tax amou amounts to toa toa toa a little over fifteen thousand dollars and is raised by levying a quarter of one B per r centon cent on Ogden Mound Fort Bingham Fort Port Harrisville North Ogden Randall Lynne WIlson Taylors Taylor's s Salt Creek Hooper and Plain City half of one per cent on Kanesville Riverdale percent Uinta and quarters per cent on Huntsville one per cent centon centon centon on Liberty and Pleasant Vi View w and two and a quarter per cent on West Weber Some of th the landowners of the latter place are not over pleased at having to pay 1200 for school purposes on a valuation of I have not noticed much in the NEWS about our last weeks week's week s sensa sensa- sensation sensation sensation tion I furnished d nothing because the whole affair made me sick and sad I was in the court at the ex- ex examination examination ex examination and there beheld a sight of a nature to make an angel weep and humanity blush Birdie Booth is a mere child She is said to be sixteen but looks younger she sat in the presence of the com com- commissioner commissioner missioner and the lawyers aud and the representatives of the press and of the partner of her shame hut but saddest of all aU in the presence of her fond doting father r for Birdie is very beautiful and has the reputation of being a sweet girl Ther There she sat and confessed her guilt Washburn sat with down down- downcast downcast downcast cast looks while his lawyer L R BRogers Rogers was trying to get him off on ona ona ona a mere technicality The story is but a r repetition petition of what is occurring every day of the week Washburn is nearly old enough to be the girls girl's father He had known her for several y years he saw that she was beautiful and discovered red that she was frail fraU and easily led astray Surely he might have pitied h her r and her broken hearted lathe father and mother Why this same man stood by my side only a few weeks ago and pointed to a Mormon who had tw two twe wives and said that I would like to give that man sev see othe years and aad rejoiced at the victory of o the Liberals because forsooth it i t would put down immorality Why Shy some of the Liberals of o Ogden gloat gloa t over immorality and anil r revel vel in it The Daily Dai Commercial the organ of oi Liberalism puts in the largest type the words Rich Rare and aud Racy as the heading for this sad tale and then tells the story in ina i n a most flippant pant and disgusting manner Washburn was held to ap- ap pear appear hebe before the grand jury Will he h b e be Dished There pu punished would be no n o room for doubt on that head if h he e were only a Mormon Personal ly I wish Washburn no harm and an am d can give it as my candid opinion n thI that be he is very far from being the th e worst of his party but truly Ogden n 4 is in the throes of pollution Many people are trying to associate A Z Washburn with Mormonism Mormon ism be- be becaUSe because be because cause he is employed at the court courthouse courthouse courthouse house by the County Recorder But Buthe Buthe Buthe he is not Mormon and a nev never r has haa been There Thore are tic no IW Mormons em em- employed employed employed at the city nail bail I under tinder n nd r Liber Liber- Liberal Liberal Liberal al control |